DUNMORE, Pa. \u2014 With Black History Month underway, campus organizers have announced upcoming events and an educational display that the campus community can check out to learn more about Black history and culture. The main event is a free bus trip for students to Washington D.C to visit the Black History Museum and other monuments.<\/p>\n
The Black Student Union has planned a Spirit Week for Feb. 9-13, with different activities every day:<\/p>\n
Monday, Feb. 9:\u00a0A Cultural Cuisine event featuring ethnic foods will take place in the View Caf\u00e9 at noon and is free for all students.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Feb. 10:\u00a0A Family Feud game will take place at noon in the View Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Feb. 11:\u00a0A movie night will take place from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Sherbine Lounge in the Study Learning Center. This event is being co-hosted with the Engineering Club. Pizza, cupcakes, cookies and popcorn will be served.<\/p>\n
Thursday, Feb. 12:\u00a0A game night will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the game room in the Study Learning Center. There will be a variety of games, Black History Month trivia and prizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Friday, Feb. 13:\u00a0The men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games in the campus’ Multipurpose Building will have a “Black Out” theme. Attendees are being asked to wear black and come out to support the teams. The women\u2019s game starts at 6 p.m. and the men\u2019s game starts at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
Saturday, Feb. 28:\u00a0Penn State Scranton students can participate in a free trip to the Black History Museum in Washington D.C. In addition to the museum, participants will also tour other national monuments and have lunch at a local restaurant. There will be an upcoming informational meeting the week of Feb. 16 and all those planning to go are asked to attend. An announcement will be posted on campus, or contact Student Services at 570-963-2690.<\/p>\n
In addition to the activities planned by the Black Student Union, there is also a display in the campus library commemorating Black History Month.<\/p>\n
Mary Ann Joyce, library operations supervisor, put the display together, which features books, videos and historical facts and quotes. Joyce said when she was deciding which types of items to include for the display, she opted for both modern and historical books.<\/p>\n
A self-proclaimed film buff, she chose movies about the Black experience and cinema books. Some of the movies featured are fiction such as Spike Lee\u2019s \u201cDo the Right Thing\u201d and others are based on true events like \u201cMiss Evers\u2019 Boys\u201d and \u201cStraight Outta Compton.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joyce said she finds it interesting to learn more about American history and different viewpoints and stories, especially ones that the average person may not know about, so she tries to include items that the average person may not have seen or heard of before.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always like to include books that show the hardships during the Civil Rights movement that Black Americans endured, and some of the leaders of that movement that are well-known, and [those] that maybe are not as well known,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to learn more about American history and different viewpoints and stories that might not be commonly known.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
The quotes she featured in the display were, likewise, chosen to reflect both popular and more obscure passages.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried once again to use some that might be popularly known, and others that just spoke to me,\u201d Joyce explained. “I enjoy quotations that strike me as meaningful or beautiful, and I like to think about the people that created the quotations and why.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0All the items in the display are available to be checked out at any time. Joyce said she hopes that even if a patron doesn\u2019t check out an item, they might be moved to stop and pick it up and browse. She decided to put the display in the middle of the library so that people will walk past and maybe think a little bit about what makes up Black history in America.<\/p>\n
Both Spirit Week, organized by the Black Student Union, and the library display are meant to show Penn State Scranton\u2019s commitment to commemorating Black History Month and other cultures.<\/p>\n
Students are encouraged to take advantage of the opportunities available this month and to learn more about Black History Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNMORE, Pa. \u2014 With Black History Month underway, campus organizers have announced upcoming events and an educational display…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-107363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}